Great news: The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is now available to Confluence Hosted customers, at no additional charge.

Through a development partnership, the benefits of the Gliffy Plugin will be available when using the hosted version of this award wining enterprise wiki. Why Confluence Hosted? It enables you to quickly edit your wiki from anywhere without dedicated IT resources. The Confluence Wiki gives you the following added benefits:

• Enterprise Security - with SSL
• Attractive, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface
• Monthly credit-card billing
• And dozens of other great features!

And now, with the Gliffy Plugin, you can add great looking drawings to that list! Gliffy enables you to create Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, and many more diagrams or simple drawings with just one click.

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is a secure and easy way to utilize the power of the Gliffy diagram editor to create professional looking diagrams within Confluence. Diagrams created with the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence are stored as attachments, allowing Confluence to manage the revision history.

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Gliffy now gives you the ability to create professional looking User Interface designs to update your User Interface diagrams. We’ve upgraded many our current symbols and have added some new ones. The new and improved symbols include:

Forms and Components: Scrollbars, Window, Dialog, Listbox, Sliders, Combobox, Textbox, Button, Datepicker and Colorpicker.

Content: Area Box, Plain Box, Image, Street Map, Video Player, Progress Bar, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Column Charts.

Miscellaneous: Sticky Note, Notes Reference, Rules, and Arrows.

Note: You can set the state of the checkbox and radio button by selecting the symbol and using the “selected” dropdown located under the properties area on the right side of Gliffy.

Check out these example Gliffy Wireframe Diagrams:

OTHER BUG FIXES

* Text description of symbols on palette was left justifying when multiline (Windows browsers)
* Overlay handles will turn off when dragging shape making it easier to align small shapes
* Fixed Save issue when a diagram has an uploaded image that has an apostrophe in the name
* Fixed Premature End of File error on transcoding

This is your chance to meet the people behind Gliffy. We will be on hand April 23-25 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Take a moment to introduce yourself to us; we will be sharing booth space 535 with Atlassian Software Systems.

We think this is a great opportunity to:

• explore the latest that Gliffy has to offer
• share with us what you’d like to see next with the program
• meet our talented team
• ask questions

If your team is considering Gliffy, stop by and test the program with us. We are confident you will be impressed.
As a thanks for saying hello, discount codes for purchase of new Gliffy Plugin for Confluence Licenses will be handed out at the booth (suggestion: other cool schwag available, get there early).

Chris Kohlhardt, the CEO & Founder, and Clint Dickson, VP of Engineering & Founder, will be available during the conference. This is a great time to get information about Gliffy from the founders. If you would like to make an appointment with us in advance, drop us a note. Mark your conference schedule for 2pm Wednesday the 23rd and 4pm Thursday the 24th for a mini-presentation in the booth by Chris.

We would be glad to see you at Web 2.0 Expo!

I’m getting hitched in May, and the planning activities are reaching a new high. Part of the challenge is being able to communicate to your vendors what the wedding site will look like, how things will be laid out, etc. For instance, our band would like to know where they need to set up during different parts of the wedding. Our photographer and videographer would like to know where certain things will be located, like the bride and grooms rooms. They also would like to get a sense for what the site will look like, indoors and out.

Well, Gliffy to the rescue! Using Gliffy as floor plan software, I was able to quickly draw and share the diagram below with my vendors to answer their questions. Click the thumbnail below to see the diagram.